AN APPRAISAL OF MAJOR INNOVATIONS UNDER THE CORECTIONAL SERVICE ACT 2019: KEYS TO EFFICIENT CRIMINAL JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION IN NIGERIA

Abstract

The Nigeria correctional Service Act of 2019 was a recent legislation introduced to put in place measures and mechanism for effective reform of our Criminal Justice system. The aim is to meet up with the needs of the ever changing society and to deal with the congested nature of the facility. The above challenges heralded the passage of the Correctional Service Act 2019 which repealed the Prison Act Cap P29, LFN, 2004.This work attempts to review the extent of respect or disregard of the rights of persons in detention in order to identify and appreciate the innovative provisions in the new Act . It is shown in this work that an inmate who while observing the order of detention or sentence of court does not lose his rights as a human being and must therefore enjoy some basic rights despite being incarcerated. We also concluded by stating that the lofty innovations under the new Act are intended to meet up with the reformation and re-integration of inmates for efficient criminal justice administration.